Hungarian Stories of the Regime Change: Voices and Perspectives
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Keywords

microhistory
minority
postcommunism
regime change
subaltern

How to Cite

Balázs, I. J. (2020). Hungarian Stories of the Regime Change: Voices and Perspectives. Porównania, 27(2), 127–139. https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2020.2.7

Abstract

Regime change narratives in Hungarian literature gained a new type of consistency around 2010, after two decades of postcommunism. The article analyses narrative strategies of novels written about the regime change, showing their tendency towards a microhistorical approach. The discussed novels include works by such minority authors as Ádám Bodor, Andrea Tompa, Sándor Zsigmond Papp, Zsolt Láng, who represent in their novels the dramatic regime change that took place in Romania in 1989.

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